Guidance

Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant: further education providers

Guidance on how we allocate funding for this grant.

Applies to England

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This guidance is for further education providers that participate in the teachers’ pension scheme. Please check the eligibility section for more information.  

This includes some: 

  • general further education colleges 
  • sixth-form colleges 
  • designated institutions (including the new designated institutions that form part of higher education provider group structures) 
  • special post-16 institutions 
  • adult and community learning providers that are part of a local authority

Updates to this page

Published 10 April 2019
Last updated 7 March 2024 + show all updates
  1. We have added guidance for the 2024 to 2025 academic year, and updated the 2023 to 2024 guidance to include the SCAPE rate rise from April 2024.

  2. We have updated this to include details for 2023 to 2024

  3. We have updated the guidance and confirmed the arrangements for the teachers’ pension scheme funding allocations for the 2022 to 2023 academic year.

  4. We have updated the guidance under the '2021 to 2022 academic year' section to confirm the approach that will be used to calculate the payments for the teachers' pension grant.

  5. We have added confirmation that we will pay the FE teachers’ pension scheme employer contribution grant for the full academic year 2021 to 2022.

  6. we have updated the information on payments for the 2020 to 2021 academic year

  7. We have confirmed how we will calculate and make payments for 2019 to 2020

  8. First published.

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